Data Documentation Template for Total Movie Box Office Receipts

NAME: movietotal.dat
TYPE: text (tab delimited)
SIZE: 2KB, 4 variables, 49 observations, header row

DESCRIPTIVE ABSTRACT: This file contains total US gross box office receipts for 49 movies. This data is to accompany the article entitled Movie Data.

SOURCES: Values have been retrieved from http://www.the-numbers.com/.

VARIABLE DESCRIPTIONS: The file for total US gross receipts has four variables: the movie’s number, the title, the type (Academy Award winner, top gross, etc) and the amount of US box office receipts (in $ millions).

SPECIAL NOTES: 

STORY BEHIND THE DATA:

PEDAGOGICAL NOTES: This data has been used in introductory statistics classes as well as in forecasting curricula. A complete set of classroom and project assignments, with solutions, is submitted with the article Movie Data.

REFERENCES: Data and information retrieved from 
http://www.the-numbers.com/
www.oscars.org/awardsdatabase
www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/100yearslist.aspx http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Sundance_Film_Festival/).


SUBMITTED BY:
Constance H. McLaren, Analytical Department, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN 47809
Concetta A. DePaolo, Analytical Department, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN 47809